It's Monday in New York City, where the nine-member Rent Guidelines Board is meeting tonight for its annual vote — eying a proposal to increase rents for the city's nearly 1 million regulated apartments.
But unlike previous votes, this one comes just days after a mayoral candidate won the Democratic primary after running on the slogan, "freeze the rent."
Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee who was arrested protesting last year's vote, is expected to show up tonight alongside hundreds of tenants to protest potential rent hikes as much as 4.75% on new one-year leases.
By the end of this year, the MTA plans to stop selling MetroCards — and to stop raise the cost of subway and bus rides by 4%, bumping a single-ride fare up to $3.
The MTA also plans to halt G train service between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avenues on select weeknights and weekends July 14 through Aug. 18 to resume work on signal modernization.
Attorneys at the Legal Aid Society, New York City's biggest public defender group, have voted to authorize a strike if management doesn't meet their demands for better work conditions.
The Roosevelt Hotel, which has housed tens of thousands of newcomers since converting to a migrant shelter and intake center in May 2023, has closed.
Mayor Eric Adams' administration has warned short-term rental hosts on Airbnb that it will step up enforcement against what City Hall called “deceptive” tactics to skirt short-term rental regulations.
Local 32BJ SEIU and the hotel workers union, two powerful labor organizations that endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, are now backing Mamdani in the general election.
The Adams administration is going ahead with a plan to relocate a major city agency's headquarters to the Wall Street building owned by a prominent Adams donor — even as an investigation into the deal continues.
Members of the Facebook group "That Annoying Bass Sound Throughout NYC" are growing increasingly frustrated with outer-borough meet-ups that feature cars with very loud speakers, plus weed and strippers.
Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said senior apartments, along with nearly 500 additional units for low- and middle-income renters, would instead be built on three other lots nearby. Housing advocates are skeptical.
Bill Ackman, a hedge fund manager who contributed $500,000 of the $24 million raised by the super PAC Fix the City, said on X that Cuomo "sat back and did not run a real campaign, relying on name recognition, early favorable polling and keeping a low profile to make it through."
